Children, as I have said, use back ways and hidden paths, while adults take roads and official paths.

My unhealthy affection for my second daughter has waned. Now I despise all my seven children equally.

It is not easy to be crafty and winsome at the same time, and few accomplish it after the age of six.

The child has other powers than ours, and the creation he achieves is no small one; it is everything.

You would have a huge statelessness problem if you don't consider a child born abroad a U.S. citizen.

A thousand people drowned in floods in China are news: a solitary child drowned in a pond is tragedy.

Gentle Jesus, meek and mild, Look upon a little child; Pity my simplicity, Suffer me to come to thee.

Do you think pandas know they're Chinese and they're taking the one child policy a bit too seriously?

Most fruits, if left alone on a tree, eventually do ripen, especially if they're not being yelled at.

Teach a child what is wise, that is morality. Teach him what is wise and beautiful, that is religion!

I have long believed that what most affects a child is not the divorce, per se, but how it is handled

People are afraid of being more ignorant than their children―especially, apparantly, their daughters.

I think the key for a child to do well in a divorce is, very simply, you have to be honest with them.

Wouldn't it be great if we could look forward to a whole world in which no child will be left behind?

The child that never learns to obey his parents in the home will not obey God or man out of the home.

A child gets moral notions from the fairy-tales he delights in, as do his elders from tale and verse.

Even as a child I felt in my heart two opposite emotions: the horror of life and the ecstasy of life.

I just wanted my daughter to grow up, get married, have children and get divorced like everyone else.

People turn their eyes and ears to him (the sage), and the sage cares for them like his own children.

I am prouder of my title 'The Children's Friend' than if I were to be called 'The King of the World'.

She never stumbles, she's got no place to fall. She's nobody's child, the law can't touch her at all.

Christmas, as a practicing Catholic child, was seen as a reward for lots and lots and lots of church.

I feel I am a child that's lost its mother. I feel like a calf whose mother has gone off to slaughter.

Children might or might not be a blessing, but to create them and then fail them was surely damnation.

We probably stagnate our children's emotional growth by not letting them have some separation from us.

Having disciples is in the end like having children, only not with love but with self-love preeminent.

My parents and I always put great emphasis on telling stories that appeal to a child's sense of humor.

A people without children would face a hopeless future; a country without trees is almost as helpless.

In their 30s women really start to live... they're not children anymore, and they're not just mothers.

I'm still a farm boy at heart. If I hadn't suffered from asthma as a child, I would be a farmer today.

Go practice if you please with men and women: leave a child alone for Christ's particular love's sake!

Too many parents make life hard for their children by trying, too zealously, to make it easy for them.

Even on education, his one accomplishment, the Leave No Child Behind Act, and he has left it unfunded.

For the world of football, Messi is a treasure because he is role model for children around the world.

Little girls are cute and small only to adults. To one another they are not cute. They are life-sized.

I never thought I was a great mom. I always worked. I fell in love with my children as they got older.

Excessive indulgence to others, especially to children is in fact only self-indulgence under an alias.

To give birth is a fearsome thing; there is no hating the child one has borne even when injured by it.

Each child in each generation chooses faith or disbelief. Faith is not an inheritance; it is a choice.

In teaching your child, do not forget that suffering is good too. It makes a person rich in character.

It will be exciting to have my child share my career and to remember what I was like when I was young.

Anybody with artistic ambitions is always trying to reconnect with the way they saw things as a child.

As a mother, the things that I wanted for my own four children, I want for all the children of France.

Children are the world's future, and we need to take care of them like we would any precious resource.

Libertarians love their children at least as much as the Democrats and the Republicans, probably more.

The most important thing you leave behind is the stuff that turns into treasures when children find it

By giving kids an allowance, you teach that child to work for money rather than learn to create money.

If the money we donate helps one child or can ease the pain of one parent, those funds are well spent.

Bringing up children is not a real occupation, because children come up just the same, brought or not.

Even members of the nobility, let alone persons of no consequence, would do well not to have children.

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